Africa

Findings of a survey in Nigeria suggest that rates of infection from Covid-19 in the country are much higher than previously reported. The results indicate that one in five of those tested in the states of Lagos, Enugu and Nasarawa have been infected. In the country’s largest city, Lagos, as …

At a court in Johannesburg, the boyfriend of a South African woman, whose murder galvanised protests against violence against women in the country, has been charged with her murder. The body of Tshegofatso Pule a young woman of 28-years-old was found hanging from a tree last June, with multiple stab …

The leader of the second-largest opposition party in Mozambique, Daviz Simango has died in neighbouring South Africa where he had been evacuated on Feburary 13. A few days earlier, Mr Simango was tested negative whereas his wife was tested positive for coronavirus. His brother Lutero Simango told journalists at the …

The judicial inquiry into government corruption in South Africa has asked the Constitutional Court to sentence former President Jacob Zuma to two years in prison for contempt. This followed Mr Zuma’s failure to appear before the State Capture Commission last week, despite a summons and an order from the highest …

The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has instructed his lawyers to withdraw the presidential poll petition which he had filed in the Supreme Court, challenging President Museveni’s victory in the January 14 general election. “We are withdrawing from the courts but we …

Guinean health authorities have postponed an Ebola vaccination roll out that was to begin on Monday due to bad weather. The plane carrying 11,000 World Health Organization vaccines was unable to land at the Conakry-Gebessia International Airport on Sunday because of bad weather conditions. On Facebook, Guinea’s health ministry said …

Italy’s foreign ministry says Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the east of the country. An Italian military policeman also died in the incident near the town of Kanyamahoro. Officials at the Virunga …

Fathi Bashagha, the interior minister of Libya’s unity government, survived an assassination attempt Sunday on a highway near the capital Tripoli, said an official from his inner circle. According to officials, his convoy was fired on from an armored car while he was on the highway. His police escort then …

Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian President expressed his condolences to the families of the seven soldiers who died in a plane crash near a runway in Abuja the capital. The chief of the Air staff has ordered an immediate investigation. According to the Nigerian Air Forces, the families of all the …

A Rwandan opposition politician, Seif Bamporiki, living in exile in South Africa, was shot dead while delivering a bed to a client in Nyanga on Sunday afternoon. Reports say Seif Bamporiki was killed while delivering furniture to a client on Sunday afternoon in Cape Town. It is not clear whether …